I obtained this album when I was 13, and it was the only thing I listened to for a whole summer. Mostly because I didn't have any money to buy anything else. I still own a copy and play it on occasion. "Foggy Mental Breakdown" might be the most dynamic heavy scuzzrock of all time.
About a year later, I found this in a Woolworth's-type store called G.C. Murphy's. I played the disc literally hundreds of times. My version was the US Tower label release which was bowdlerized, with "Bike", "Astronome Domine" and "Flaming" cruelly cut away... but it did kick off with "See Emily Play". I listened to it so many times, that it still throws me for a loop when I hear the current edition starting off with "Astronome" instead of "Emily".
I got this when I was 16 years old, and proceeded to literally wear it out. I'd get stoned with my High School pals and then torture them with "Peking O". The mileage: I'm currently on my fourth copy. But I don't need to play it as much now, because I can literally dial up any moment here in my mind anytime I want.
